Never Trust A Man

With no vices. [1. Daniel Radcliffe interview: ‘Never trust a man with no vices.’”] With egg on his face. [2. “Never Trust A Man (with Egg On His Face),” Adam Ant.] With pinched nostrils and thin lips. [3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Sonya Levien.] With dirty fingernails. [4. Doctor Who, Robert Holmes.] With a twisted tooth. [5. The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor, Walter Savage Landor.]

On a motorbike. [6. Holiday Affair (Entangled Indulgence), Annie Seaton.] In a horse trade. [7. The Phi Gamma Delta, Volume 7.] Over 50 who still has an earring. [8. “Election Eve,” Fox News.]

That cannot laugh. [9. Christian Nation, Volume 29.] That hides wine in the closet. [10. It Looked Like for Ever, Mark Harris.] That don’t hold up and look you in the face. [11. The Clockmaker,Thomas Chandler Haliburton.] That laughs from his neck up–an honest man laughs from his diaphragm. [12. The Medical Standard, Volume 23.]

Who loves animals. [13. “Passion Plays,” Larissa MacFarquhar.] Who carries a handkerchief. [14. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami.] Who has found Jesus and still drives a Corvette. [15. Lily Wyatt, Will Aldis.] Who wears sandal and diamond jewellery. [16. Swann, Carol Shields.] Who has not bathed by the light of the Great Bear. [17. Plays in Prose and Verse, William Butler Yeats.] Who was Protestant with half his head, and Romanist with the other half. [18. The Argosy, Volume 1.]